If I'm not mistaken, this is closer to where Treydoggie lives. I've been worried sick about him since the fires broke out.

Someone need to head over to Trey and get him to safety!

I've heard from him, he is okay! WOO HOO!

How close is he to the fire?

I PM'd him and he told me it is about 15 to 20 miles away from him. So far he's missed the fire (though he has the smoke), tornadoes and flooding. Let's hope that Dunmeri lass of his keeps a dome of protection around his place!

I think the last death toll from the fires was 14, but they are over now (thank goodness) and the city is starting to sort through the rubble to see what can be salvaged.

The chronological recap in the news:

Thank God for the rain, though up here we're getting it as snow.

Thick, heavy, wet snow.

The worst kind.

Well, anything to put out the fires I imagine

Happy Easter!

Happy Easterus for the rest of us!

Happy Easter everyone and enjoy a cup of coffee.

Happy Easter, friends!!

It is a glorious day in Grits world. The Easter bunny went way overboard filling the baskets on this last year before the older child moves to college, so I am enjoying the overflow with my coffee. Dinner is being prepared by loving hands elsewhere, and since I just got home yesterday my only task is to show up with the family and some wine. Woo!

Happy Easter Chorrol !!!!

Hoppy Easter!

Khajiit is currently at work, but he plans on leaving a bit early and going home and drinking some beer!*

*After he stops by the coffee shop!

So.


Got a new job going. One where I don't have to drive 20 minutes to and 20 minutes fro each day, and where I hopefully won't have to freeze each and every single day!

It's in the metal industry so no furnitures or anything, but I reckon I'll manage. Just talked to the owner who I know quite well already (small town and all that) and he was overall very positive and urged me to come down and talk to the person handling applicants who happens to be his sister.

I just talked briefly with the owner about my chances and he wanted me to come down asap. I explained I currently have an internship elsewhere so I work full time, but it seemed ok if I dropped by after hours or close to it anyway.


I don't know how it is to work there but I suspect I much prefer it over the place I'm at now

Mirocu

Hope this new situation works out, and that you enjoy (?) it as much as you seem to expect to! I'm SO glad to be retired and out the job market, hopeful for good. (As if anyone would be dumb enough to hire a decrepit old has-been like me. LOL) I read about people who don't know what to do with themselves once they throw in the towel. I was more than ready when that time came. Not once since then have I missed my years in the workforce.

Like Edla in Bruma says; "One place is pretty much like another" - Have you been to one factory you've pretty much been to all of them. Of course they vary but in essence you know what to expect; do what you're told to as fast as possible. I know from experience that may be true but I also know that it's up to the worker to put the final limit, lest he'd hit the wall full speed from which he may not recover.


I thought I was out too!


I think this will be me when my time comes, but I hope that my years left in the work force will be good and possibly even better than before. It may even be fun at times since I already know a bunch of people who work at this place. People I go along well with. Lets just hope I can get along with them at work too, but I think so


Thanks for the well-wishes!

Wow, it is great to hear you talking about looking forward to working at a job! Is this new job going to be a paying job? I hope so, this sounds like an Awesome situation! Good Luck on getting the position!

No details yet but since they are hiring I suspect they won't BS around like the place I'm currently at so I reckon I'll be paid from day 1


Who am I and what have I done to Rocu??

Congrats to 'Rocu!

Great to hear, mirocu! I hope this metal working job works out well. So far, it sounds pretty good.

Regarding being retired, here are my thoughts:

When I was six, I had an invisible friend. She and I would spend our days happily playing. Then came school, more school, training, more school and several decades of career. . . and I lost her somewhere in all that. It took me over half a century, but I finally found her again. She and I spend our days happily playing.

Your imaginary friend is Buffy!

Thanks, guys! Yeah, I do hope this will work out better. If nothing else it's right where I live so I don't have to commute. And it's indoors so I don't have to be cold!


This is amazing. I'm so glad you found your beloved childhood friend after all those years!

I just had my morning/noon coffee. MacCoffee with chocolate dunken donuts brand creamer.

MacCoffee? Is that the McDonald's coffee you can buy at stores?

Yep and its pretty good stuff too though a bit pricey but still worth it.

Started Sambo and Combat Wrestling today.

And I say that with the voice of one who was brutalized so hard he actually enjoyed it. Because I did. Hard earned knowledge is the best kind of knowledge, particularly when you gain that knowledge by being ragdolled around by a Bulgarian guy with the body of a damn bull.

And I wasn't even supposed to train today. I was just supposed to fill in application and go shopping for gear.

Le Scenario:
----
Le Me: "Hey yo tho, I ain't got no shorts; just these 6969¥ jeans that would allegedly up my Charisma with them Chicks to insane levels."

Le Coach: "I have shorts, friend, here; have them for today."

Le Me: "But what about the top, Bossman, I'm gonna train with 50% of my birthday suit?"

Le Coach: "Nonsense, comrade; here, I have t-shirt."

*Le Me looks at the proffered items*

*Le Me gulps*

*Le Me crosses myself*

Le Me: C Nami Bog, Beef Stroganoff.

And then... And then The Unexpected Training ™ began. To be Francis with y'all, it was actually pretty manageable. The warm up consisted of stuff that I was familiar with; Judo thingamabobs. Still, it's been a while, and while the memory is like, drilled into my muscles, the exhaustion was still there. Soon I was breathing like a hippo on a straw. Then came Le Tekniks ™. Again, simple stuff, meant for beginners but I still enjoyed it immensely. There's just something about beginning from zero, making mistakes and slowly but surely refining it through repetition that speaks to my soul. Highlights included me being subjected to a soft armbar THAT WASNT SOFT AND I COULDNT TAP OUT BECAUSE THE PAIN OH MY GOD MY ARM AND MY ELBOW MAMAAAAAAA

Then there was this toe hold that legit took me by surprise and I actually whooped out. More in surprise, really, but damn. Toe holds are deynjerus!

All in all, it was fun and enlightening as all hell. Looking forward to the next session.

Lol, thanks for posting this! It was an amusing read!

Looking through my “heirloom box” for an old document the other week I came upon a xerox of a quiz from, if memory serves, the early 1980s. I no longer recall its source. Nor do I have an official answer sheet. (I don’t believe one was provided.) I thought highly enough of it back then to deem it worth preserving. I still think it “cute”.

It’s not hard by any means. I had no problem coming up with what I assume are correct responses. (Okay, there are one or two questions I was never 100% sure on. Even for those I have what I believe to be “plausible” solutions.) Yet I was surprise, back then, when some coworkers I showed it to, folk with more intelligence than me, got answer after answer wrong...again assuming I was/am right. I think their problem was not understanding the “gist” of the quiz.

At any rate, I take the liberty of posting almost the whole of it below. Feel free to take a stab. Please enclose any and all solutions within spoilers. Enjoy.


2. Do they have a 4th of July in England?

3. How many birthdays does the average man have?

4. Why can’t a man living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina be buried west of the Mississippi River?

5. If you had only one match and entered a room in which there were an oil-burner, a kerosene lamp, and wood-burning stove, which would you light first?

6. Some months have 30 days, some 31. How many months have 28 days?

7. If a doctor gave you 3 pills and told you to take one every half-hour, how long would they last?

8. A man builds a house with 4 sides to it and it is rectangular in shape. Each side has a southern exposure. A bear comes lumbering by. What color is the bear?

9. How far can a dog run into the woods?

10. What 4 words appear on every denomination of U.S. coins?

11. I have in my hand two (2) U.S. coins which total 55 cents. One is not a nickel, bear this in mind. What are the coins I have?

12. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but nine dies. How many did he have left?

13. Divide 30 by ½ and add 30. What is the answer?

14. Two men play checkers. They play 5 times without a draw game and each man won the same number of games. How do you explain this?

15. Take 2 apples from three apples and what do you have?

16. An archaeologist claimed he found some coins dated 46 B.C.. Do you think he did?

17. A woman gives a beggar 40 cents. The woman is the beggar’s sister, but the beggar is not the woman’s brother. How come?

18. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?

19. Is it legal in North Carolina for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

20. What word in this test is mispelled?

Neat! Well, let’s see.

My original quiz posting now appears a page ago (in my browser at any rate). I take the liberty of posting it again on this new page. Sorry for a bit of redundancy.

ADDENDUM: Oh yeah, please confine solutions within spoilers.

1. THIS QUESTION IS NOT INCLUDED. My xerox copy blurs a critical time designation.

2. Do they have a 4th of July in England?

3. How many birthdays does the average man have?

4. Why can’t a man living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina be buried west of the Mississippi River?

5. If you had only one match and entered a room in which there were an oil-burner, a kerosene lamp, and wood-burning stove, which would you light first?

6. Some months have 30 days, some 31. How many months have 28 days?

7. If a doctor gave you 3 pills and told you to take one every half-hour, how long would they last?

8. A man builds a house with 4 sides to it and it is rectangular in shape. Each side has a southern exposure. A bear comes lumbering by. What color is the bear?

9. How far can a dog run into the woods?

10. What 4 words appear on every denomination of U.S. coins?

11. I have in my hand two (2) U.S. coins which total 55 cents. One is not a nickel, bear this in mind. What are the coins I have?

12. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but nine dies. How many did he have left?

13. Divide 30 by ½ and add 30. What is the answer?

14. Two men play checkers. They play 5 times without a draw game and each man won the same number of games. How do you explain this?

15. Take 2 apples from three apples and what do you have?

16. An archaeologist claimed he found some coins dated 46 B.C.. Do you think he did?

17. A woman gives a beggar 40 cents. The woman is the beggar’s sister, but the beggar is not the woman’s brother. How come?

18. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?

19. Is it legal in North Carolina for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

20. What word in this test is mispelled?


Those attempting to solve the quiz themselves should NOT open the below spoiler box, as it contains Grits' solutions as well as my comments on several of them. You are warned. heh

The correct answer to 2 is No, they have July the 4th.

The answer to 3 is 0.9993 per year. Those born on Feb 29th don't get one every year.

4. If you're in Winston-Salem, you can't call that living.

5. the room, using the electric switch on the wall. Then I could at least see what I'm doing.

8. Plaid. Everyone knows that plaid is required uniform for lumbering.

The answer to 12 assumes that the remaining 9 have not fled from the plague.

Most interesting. Have you considered running for US Congress?

I just had me a cup of Joe just now, I need my caffeine fix for the day .

I am leaving later today for another semiannual pilgrimage to visit Acadian Sr who lives several thousand miles away and is coming out of his 97th winter. I will be without internet, so shall miss chorrol while I’m gone. I look forward to returning in a week and catching up with everything here.

Safe travels Acadian! Enjoy your time with your Da!

*sniff, sniff*



(But that said, I am so glad you still have this time to spend with your Father. Treasure these moments as long as you can!)

I put some vanilla crown royal in my coffee this morning and with the chocolate creamer this morning's coffee was awesome!!!

Safe journey, Acadian! I hope you have a great trip. We'll make sure the coffee is hot for your return.

Wow, 97? My gammy is a youngster with her mere 93



All the best to the traveler and his dad!

I've a married aunt/uncle combo, the uncle being my dad's younger brother, in their early nineties. The aunt was admitted to a nursing home a while back, after falling and breaking a hip, I believe???? Don't know if that was supposed to be a permanent arrangement. She might be home now for all I know. Up until the fall their health had held up amazingly well. They were the last of our family to keep in touch (through my brother). Several years back I stopped receiving holiday cards from them when they great reduced the number of folk on their communications list. Since then I've known what little I do of them by what my brother remembers of their rare phone conversations. (He used to visit them once a year prior to Xmas. So far as I know that ended last year.)

Had an inhouse tournament at the gym today, Sambo rules. We had visitors from other gym participating, 15 people in total, and it was... Damn, I am so in love with the sport after it to be quite honest. I should've started earlier! I copped 2nd place in my weight division but getting there was a total war. Case in point, my first opponent was a Judo black belt. Let me repeat that, my first taste of competitive combat was against a guy who's practically light years ahead of me in terms of not only technique and experience, but also in physicality as well. He might've been shorter than me, but he was 8 kilos heavier (he's 120kg). Suffice to say I didn't last too long; he easily countered my takedown attempts with either an Uchi-Mata or Harai Goshi. Could've been a straight up hip throw though. Couldn't remember too much. All I do remember is how utterly paralyzing that throw was; imagine 120 kg + momentum crashing you down against the (padded) floor.

Thankfully, after that, my opponents were nearer to my skill level. Not that it was a cakewalk — almost all of them had been grueling wars of attrition. I felt like I was burning while in a knife fight! Almost got submitted several times too!

All in all, it was a very humbling experience. The tournament showed me what I can do, but most importantly it also showed me my limits. There's a certain rapture, a release almost, at having reality force you to your knees and straight up tell you that, yeah? Purifies the spirit and banishes unnecessary ego. I love it.

http://imgur.com/a/DF0yi

Next month, me and a few of my gym siblings are going to join a Judo tournament. It's going to be fun, can't wait.

good that you found something you love doing! Just be safe!

Oh, I will!

Oh, that is Awesome !!!! Congrats on your 2nd Place, sounds like you worked really hard to get it!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pL6uUYdWbU

Khajiit just got off work and is in the coffee shop, posting in the coffee shop thread.

Rolling through eastern Tennessee on my son's last voyage of childhood, drinking iced coffee through a straw. *waves to treydog and mALX*

Aww, how old is your son?

Old enough to do most of the driving!

Lol, nice!